Improvement in mode of covering harness-mountings



WILLIAM'FAWCETT.

Covering Harness Mountings.

Patented Dec. 26, 1871.

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f I w l l l l UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

WILLIAM FAWGETT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN MODE OF COVERING HARNESS-MOUNTINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,163, dated December 26, 1871.

Specification describing a certain Improvement in Covering Harness-Mountings, invented by WILLIAM FAWGETT, of New York city,in the county and State of NGWYOI'k.

Figure 1 is a side view of a terret covered in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is anedge View of the same, part being broken away to. show the construction. Fig. 3 is the same view as Fig. 2, but illustrating a modification of the covering. Fig. 4 is a detail view illustrating another modification of the covering. Fig. 5 is a detail view of a portion of the covering shown in Fig. 4.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improvement in covering harness-mountings, simple in construction, convenient in application, inexpensive, and at the same'time will give a neat and elegant appearance to the mountings; and it consists in the covering applied to the mountings, as hereinafter more fully described.

A represents a terret, the inner surface of which is rounded oil to receive the plating. The outer surface is also rounded off, and has a shoulder or recess formed init near each edge, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. B is the covering, which may be made of leather or hard rubber. The covering B is molded or otherwise formed, so as to fit upon the outer side of the mountings, the shoulders or recesses preventing it from slipping off. The ends of the covering are secured to the shank orneck of the mounting. For additional secur ity, and to add to the appearance of the mounting, wires 0 may be passed over the covering B along the shoulders or recesses of the mountings, as shown in Fig. 2, its ends being secured to the shank or neck of the mountings; or, if desired, the wires 0 may be covered with or embedded in the covering B, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, so as to secure the said covering in place, and at the same time be entirely out of sight.

This construction enables the covering to be applied to the mountings only upon the outer side, leaving the inner side uncovered to receive the plating and the wear, thus avoiding facing the mountings with metal, and the attending trouble and expense.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. Harness-mountings covered with leather or hard rubber upon the outer side, leaving the inner side uncovered, substantially as herein shown and described, and whether the wires 0 be used or not, as set forth.

2. The wires G, in combination with the covering B andmountings A, substantially as herein shown and described, whether the said wires be upon the outsides or covered by or embedded in the said covering B, as set forth.

3. The shoulder or recess formed upon the outer surface of harness-mountings to adapt them to receive a cover upon their outer sides, substan-' tially as herein shown and. described, and for the purpose set forth.

' WILLIAM FAWGETT.

Witnesses:

JAMEs T. GRAHAM,

T. B. MOSHER. (72) 

